Pop music: the 1940s
1940 – 1949 · Event
Popular music of the 1940s.
On these timelines: UK Popular Music
More from UK Popular Music
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis Presley) (1956)
- Maybellene (Chuck Berry) (1955)
- Do the Reggay (Toots and the Maytals) (1968)
- Waterloo Sunset (The Kinks) (1967)
- God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols) (1977)
- Billie Holiday records Strange Fruit (1939)
- Anarchy in the U.K. (Sex Pistols) (1976)
Around 1940
- World War II (1939)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
- United Nations founded (1945)